Walrus and Carpenter restaurant shuts after 37 years

A restaurant which has been a part of Bath life for nearly 37 years has closed.It is not known what led to the sudden closure of the Walrus and Carpenter in Barton Street, which specialised in English organic food.A notice posted on the door said the premises had been effectively repossessed last week.The independent restaurant was established in 1974, and at one time had a sister restaurant in Bristol.Geoff Walker of David Walker in Gay Street said he was now in touch with the owners of the building who were deciding what to do with the property. A sign posted on Friday said: "The landlords have today effected a peaceable re-entry into 28 Barton Street, Bath."All enquiries to Derek Walker (Chartered Surveyor)."The restaurant has been run since 1986 by Andrew Robinson, who had been a customer for the previous 12 years, and it had become a favourite with visitors to the nearby Theatre Royal.Another well-known and long-standing city restaurant, the Moon and Sixpence closed in March, but its Milsom Place premises have been taken over by the Cote chain.

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I went there a few times and really liked the atmosphere and it was away from the main drag and all the chains. I love Demuths but its always too busy for lunch time. Any recommendations for other nice little tucked away places in Bath that don't cost too much? I will miss the W&TC, it was a good place to meet up for lunch. I don't live in Bath so don't really know where to suggest for meet ups with friends.

37 years! Must be about 37 years ago that I first ate there the one time! I'm just not a restaurant kinda person. I prefer to do my own cooking and baking and then I know what goes in to the meal and the cost of making it! Food to me is only a nessasary item I have to eat to survive; So I eat to live. Not live to eat!

I and all of my friends loved this restaurant very much and bath suffers for its loss. good luck to Andrew and lets hope the magic of the place survives and whoever buys it doesn't turn it into a dull and normal restaurant with wine at £15.95 and food like everywhere else.

i will miss this restaurant very much! i sincerely hope it wont be taken over by some chain who will doubtless have £16 wine on the menu. i always had great service here and it charmed the socks off me and all of my friends! good luck to Andrew and i hope the magic of the place survives.

A large pile of buffet-style salad next to a burger for north of a tenner is not evening dinning in Bath. Might have been okay 15 years ago; not today though. A good, well run restaurant will have no trouble getting customers through the door, no matter how many other establishments there are. Quaint it may have been, quality it wasn't.

I ate there once and never returned and as a Manager in the Hotel trade not once did I recommend this restaurant..there are far better places in Bath doing a better job. But still it's not nice for any employees who now have no job.